Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Zheng Chengxun appeared on the Star Jump, indeed carrying a mission. His task was to represent the Gao Mu Country military, exchanging intelligence with Park Changmin, and controlling the movements of the Star Jump.

Just as Wu Chang had previously guessed, offering a sacrifice to the Evil God was of great significance. Once exposed, no one could bear the responsibility.

To ensure the message was fully blocked, at the journey’s end, in the sea area that would appear after the Star Jump left the Shipwreck Belt, the Gao Mu Country Navy had arranged warships in advance to guard there.

The warships served two purposes: first, to pick up the high-ranking members of the New Cosmos Sect and navy captains; second, to eliminate witnesses.

According to Zheng Chengxun, during the sacrifices over the years, many accidents had occurred, especially in the earliest sacrifices that began due to lack of experience, encountering numerous accidents.

Some passengers realized something was wrong and jumped into the sea immediately after leaving the Shipwreck Belt, narrowly surviving by being rescued by other ships, returning alive to Gao Mu Country.

Others were powerful passengers suspected to be players who infiltrated the ship, eliminated the sacrifice leader, and once leaving the Shipwreck Belt, piloted the ship to escape. A lot of effort was then spent, and the president dealt with that incident as a pirate attack.

After that incident, to prevent similar events, the Navy stationed warships at the original place.

On subsequent occasions, if players eliminated the sacrifice leader and hijacked the ship to escape, the warships would directly launch attacks, destroying the ship, preventing it from promptly leaving the Shipwreck Belt range and dragging it back.

Simultaneously, after the sacrifice, the Navy would take boats to check the sea surface, ensuring no passengers jumped ship to escape.

Wu Chang asked about the warship’s stationing habits. Seeing Zheng Chengxun couldn’t provide other useful intelligence, he sent him on his way.

Fulfilling the grievance on the Song of the Sea increased his Power by 1 point, Energy by 1 point, Will by 1 point, and Inspiration by 2 points.

Apart from attributes, he also received a shoulder patch marked as First Mate.

”Item Name: Rebel’s Will”

”Item Type: Consumable”

”Artifact Level: B-Level”

”Item Skills: Assemble”

”Skill Description: Using Rebel’s Will grants leader status, gathering rebels with the same target, and enhances followers with Rebel status.”

”Status: Rebel”

”Status Description: While the leader survives, all attributes of rebels increase by 20%, main attributes increase by 30%, and Will increase by 30 points.”

Wu Chang did not expect that completing a not so difficult grievance would explode into a B-level consumable.

The Rebel status, its effect equivalent to two main scene effects overlapping; if in a multiplayer instance, especially in Silent Route which involves dozens of people in one multiplayer scene, Rebel’s Will can raise the overall strength of all players by two tiers.

After dealing with Zheng Chengxun, the Great White Shark took control of the Star Jump.

Meanwhile, seemingly influenced by the battle’s end, the storm that lasted a whole day gradually subsided.

The thick clouds dissipated, revealing the moon in the sky.

On the fourth deck, Cui Chengze and Ma Jia were modifying the Earthly Divine Kingdom ritual.

The escaped Secret Ceremony Master still had not been found, and the New Cosmos Sect’s Mysticism master hadn’t been eliminated, leaving a hidden danger.

Using this as an excuse, Ma Jia asked to continue modifying the Earthly Divine Kingdom, and Wu Chang took advantage of the situation, letting Cui Chengze perform a secondary modification after Ma Jia’s changes.

After completing all these, night had already deepened.

Everyone kept their nerves tense throughout the day and had just ended a huge battle. Even for players, it was hard to sustain, entering a short rest.

Just when everyone thought the day was over and began relaxing.

Wu Chang let Cui Chengze initiate the long-prepared large-scale baptism ceremony.

With the baptism ceremony activated, the entire Shipwreck Belt weirdly fell into tranquility.

The clouds in the sky stopped drifting, the wind on the sea instantly disappeared, and even the sea calmed down, ceasing its flow.

The slumbering Sword Star suddenly awoke from his dream. He strode to the balcony, looking outside, but did not perceive any abnormalities.

Ma Jia, planning the next action, suddenly twitched his eyelids. He swiftly exited the room, reaching the deck. Though he couldn’t see any anomalies, his understanding of Mysticism made him intuitively look towards the seventh layer of Star Jump, Wu Chang’s room.

What is that native doing in the instance again?

Many players with strong Inspiration realized something was happening on the ship, but none discerned what was occurring.

Except for Wu Chang.

His eyes, transformed by Mystical Origin, could clearly see the sea area around the Star Jump collapsing.

A massive vortex was forming with him at the center, swallowing everything between heaven and earth.

Under the vortex’s suction, the space shattered like glass, revealing numerous cracks.

With the increasing cracks, small fragments of space started to peel off.

Peeling space fragments fell into the vortex, transforming into pure Power of Mystical Origin and pouring into Wu Chang’s body.

In the center of the vortex, Wu Chang was floating within the Reincarnation Array.

With his eyes closed, in the introspective state of the Cultivation Technique, he examined the transformation within himself.

According to the description in the Secret Knight Manual, Mystical contamination, or Mystical originization, is an extremely painful process akin to having boiling iron water poured into one’s body, melting all flesh, and recasting a new physique.

Such terrifying description made Wu Chang especially anxious before preparation, contemplating whether to send Cui Chengze out and complete the reincarnation alone.